Akhtarul Iman

Iman said that he entered politics when he was a student. In 1985, he started a campaign against burglars. Iman said that he started the campaign as "the police and administration were hand in glove" with them. In Bihar assembly election of 2005, he contested from Kochadhaman on a Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket and was elected. He also retained the seat in 2010. In February 2013, when students were being made to do the yoga asana of Surya Namaskar (allegedly bowing down to Hindu sun God Surya), Iman said that the government was trying to implement the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (a Hindu right wing organization) ideology in the state.

In 2014, he left Rashtriya Janata Dal and joined Janata Dal (United). He was made a candidate by his party to contest from the Kishanganj seat for the Indian general election, 2014. However on 15th April (10 days before the election) he withdrew in favour of Mohammad Asrarul Haque of the Indian National Congress citing that he did not want to split the Muslim vote as his goal was to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party.

In August 2015, Iman joined Hyderabad based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and in November 2015, Iman was mas made a candidate for the party from the Kochadhaman seat in the Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015. In the rallies, the party workers hailed him as Sher-e-Bihar (Tiger of Bihar) and was projected as Bihar's Asaduddin Owaisi (the party's national chief). He said that if people of the Paswan and Yadav community (low caste Hindu communities) can have their own political parties, then Muslims should also have their own.He was also the party's president for Bihar state.

However, he lost the election to Mujahid Alam of Janata Dal (United). Iman polled 37,000 votes compared to Alam's 56,000.